What Even Is This Place? For all its glitz and glamour, the last time I was in Las Vegas in summer 2024, the most bang I got for my buck was a virtual reality ride at a mall. We had driven in from Arizona on the Sinisterhood Full Moon Energy tour, stopping briefly at a … Continue reading The Bagans Chronicles
This Bloody Spectacle
I make more than my fair share of mistakes on the air. As a recovering perfectionist/lawyer, it used to haunt me. Now I realize I can’t know everything, and even all that I do know doesn’t always come out just right. Yes, I know Neptune is a planet. Canadian coins are called loonies and toonies … Continue reading This Bloody Spectacle
Laundry, Barely
The other day, I needed something, and without even knowing it @28lesbian on tumblr delivered. I wasn’t even on tumblr when I saw it, in fact. I saw it how I saw a lot of stuff I see online - in my feed on Instagram. Now, I am happy to give credit where credit is … Continue reading Laundry, Barely
Where You’re From
This week, Paris’s grandmother died. She was 90 years old and had been diagnosed with Stage IV liver cancer just a few weeks ago. I hate to say she “lost the battle” with cancer because that necessarily creates the dichotomy of winners and losers. Is sticking around here a real prize? The true prize is … Continue reading Where You’re From
Curiouser and Curiouser
I’m hurtling through space at a couple hundred miles per hour somewhere over Mississippi. I’m in the last row of first class on an airplane not much larger than a Dodge Caravan. Christie and I are flying home from traveling for the podcast. She’s back in steerage, and I’d be sitting right beside her, but … Continue reading Curiouser and Curiouser
A Sense of Security
I pulled a knife out of my mailbox this week. To be clear, it wasn’t a threat. I was expecting this knife. It came in a white padded envelope all the way from Huntersville, North Carolina. A woman named McKenzie texted me earlier in the week to tell me that my knife was on its … Continue reading A Sense of Security
The Gospel According to Bieber
Mid-morning on a Tuesday, I am sitting in Well Grounded Coffee trying to get my morning pages done. At once, I am surrounded on all sides by people. The first is a man in his mid-40s, taking a seat at a table just to my right. He opens his laptop and starts typing on a … Continue reading The Gospel According to Bieber
Sobbing and Rocking
I should be watching the concert in front of me. I can’t. I can’t focus on anything but the couple across the aisle. A diminutive pair, the man is wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a blocky black floral print. His jeans are skin tight. His hair is slicked back. I am across the … Continue reading Sobbing and Rocking
Real Characters
For awhile in the late twenty-teens (what do we even call the years between 2010 and 2019?), I was miserable. Just absolutely down-in-the-dumps, ready to drive my car into a highway median. I didn’t want to die, exactly, but I just wanted to shut it down for awhile, spend a little time laid up in … Continue reading Real Characters
My Application to be a Female Motorhome Travel Companion
This was a post on someone's NextDoor neighborhood app that has been screenshot and shared online. The questionnaire follows a photo of a motorhome parked at a gas pump outside of a combination Pilot truck stop/Hardee’s restaurant, the worst gas station/restaurant combo. Everyone knows the best combo is the TA/Taco Bell Express or the Exxon/McDonald’s if … Continue reading My Application to be a Female Motorhome Travel Companion
Heather vs. the World 